Brazil’s Data Center Boom is Enabled by Renewables Firms w/ Laís Martins
10 08 26
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Brazil’s Data Center Boom is Enabled by Renewables Firms
Laís Martins
Notes
Brazil’s renewable energy is being exploited to justify unnecessary data center construction. Laís Martins joins Paris Marx to discuss why the renewable energy sector is behind a rise in Brazilian data center development, how this is impacting communities, and the ways this greenwashing is redirecting funding away from more socially progressive projects.
Guest
Laís Martins is a technology reporter at The Intercept Brasil.
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Links
- Preorder Hyperscale to support Paris at Bookshop or find more links at hyperscalebook.com.
- Laís has written about the connection between wind energy and data center construction.
- Laís has written about the social impacts of the renewable energy driven data center build out in Brazil.